1st Edition

Genetics and the Politics of Security A Social Science Perspective

By Joëlle Vailly Copyright 2024
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Presenting a social science perspective on the contemporary gaze on the body of the suspect, this book considers how definitions of criminality, offenses, individual rights, and the concepts of identity and difference have been altered by changes in the biological status of the human. Spurred by rapid developments in genetics and information technology, a number of countries, including... Read more

Introduction: Identity and profiling in the 21st century

Part 1: Police rationales and attitudes toward genetic databases

Chapter 1: Genetic profiling­ as the extension of suspicion

Chapter 2: Resistance to the genetic database

Part 2: Predicting the appearance of suspects

Chapter 3: The problem of suspects’ origin

Chapter 4: The acceptability of suspect appearance tests

Part 3: Genetic suspects: new frontiers

Chapter 5: DNA evidence and its new regimes of practice

Chapter 6: Tracking suspects through Europe

Conclusion

Biography

Joëlle Vailly is a French sociologist, anthropologist, and biologist. She is Director of Research at the French Scientific Research National Center (CNRS) and a member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into Social Issues, IRIS, France.